A blog by Cathy Holtom, an English artist living and painting in Sicily.

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Fig and Chocolate Cake

Everyday matters - Something you snack on
This is Buccellato, a sicilian cake made from pastry filled with dried figs, almonds, walnuts and dark chocolate. It's eaten mainly in the Christmas period, but I love it anytime. I love to bite into it and find whole pieces of nut and chocolate amongst the jammy figs. I expect you can appreciate how difficult it was not to eat it!
We are lucky to have some really nice local bakeries where everything is freshly made every day. I will have a go at sketching some of the traditional cakes and biscuits we have for the coming Carnival time...at great personal sacrifice of course!

Great sketch and it sounds like a wonderfu treat. Here in Michigan the snow is deep and the temperature is eight below zero Fahrenheit (sp?), but now you've taken my mind off the weather and I'm craving a big chunk of chocolate! LOL!

Mmmmmmm looks so good, my mouth is watering... Wish I could eat weat, but must only feast with my eyes and I cant tell you happy I am that you will do the big "sacrifice" for this project {I cant wait to feast my eyes on more bake goods}

Lovely painting, and cakes like this can be so hard to paint, but you did it really well.

I particularly like the shading, but it's really hard to concentrate on the drawing because of its edible qualities and figs, walnuts, almonds AND chocolate. Such a distraction.Not to worry though, Sue just said she can make me look tall and thin so keep drawing scrumptious food.http://whatidoisme.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/edm-challenge-bottle-of-water/